Working in a newsroom taught me to design in the moment. The time constraints of broadcast and print news force you to make quick decisions, work with limited resources, and learn to navigate the edge between quality and compromise. It is both stressful and exhilarating. Newspapers are snapshots of the world and its moments in […]
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Why use black and white when you can use color?
We’ve debated the ethics of the colorizing of black and white photographs recently—so I was interested when my friend Martin Bounds pointed to the fact that the New York Times chose to use a black and white photograph on its November 22nd cover commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Both color and black […]